Posted on 01/27/2010 4:41:04 PM PST by SE Mom
The president is scheduled to give the State of the Union address at 9 PM eastern.
LMAO!!!!!!
The hero cop from Ft Hood next to Michelle is looking pretty disgusted with the whole scene, isn’t she?
I just saw Big Sis!!!
Good thing we have a man who wants to be king of his fellow “citizens of the world”
Might be your TV, it’s red with white stripes on mine.
Michelle IS purple on mine - looks like Barney the Dinosaur.
No hard for me to believe at all.
SARAH’S ON !! The DU’s are throwing
things and the F bombs are exploding !!!!
I noticed that...limp-wrist clapping.
LOL! Big hiney at that.
Wife notes purple is the ‘in color’, in case you care.
Lightly toast a slice of good bread. Spread liberally with salted butter. Grate on cinnamon to taste. Sprinkle evenly with sugar, 1 tablespoon. Put under broiler just until sugar melts. Allow to cool 1-2 minutes, but be sure to eat warm.
Early on, some channels used a scheme of red for Democrats and blue for Republicans. The first television news network to use colors to depict the states won by presidential candidates was NBC.
In 1976, John Chancellor, the anchorman for the NBC Nightly News, asked his network's engineers to construct a large electronic map of the USA. The map was placed in the network's election-night news studio. If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate that year, won a state it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the Republican, carried a state it would light up in blue. The feature proved to be so popular that four years later all three major television networks would use colors to designate the states won by the presidential candidates on Election Night. NBC continued to use the color scheme employed in 1976 for several years; NBC newsman David Brinkley famously referred to the 1980 election map as showing Ronald Reagan's 44-state landslide as resembling a "suburban swimming pool".[6]
CBS, from 1984 on, used the opposite scheme: blue for Democrats, red for Republicans. ABC used yellow for one major party and blue for the other in 1976. However, in 1980 and 1984, ABC used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats. As late as 1996, there was still no universal association of one color with one party.[7] If anything, by 1996, color schemes were relatively mixed, as CNN, CBS, ABC, and The New York Times referred to Democratic states with the color blue and Republican ones as red, while Time Magazine and the Washington Post used an opposite scheme.[8][9][10]
In the days following the protracted 2000 election, major media outlets began conforming to the same color scheme because the electoral map was continually in view and conformity made for easy and instant viewer comprehension. On Election Night that year there was no coordinated effort to code Democratic states blue and Republican states red; the association gradually emerged. Partly as a result of this eventual and near-universal color-coding, the terms "red states" and "blue states" entered popular usage in the weeks following the 2000 presidential election. Journalists began to routinely refer to "blue states" and "red states," even before the 2000 election was settled.[citation needed]
After the results were final, journalists stuck with the color scheme, as the December 2001 The Atlantic's cover story by David Brooks entitled, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible" illustrated. Thus, red and blue became fixed in the media and in many people's minds,[11] despite the fact that no "official" color choices had been made by the parties.
The greasy guy speaking to Obaqma looks like a Jihadist......
It is against equal rights to keep out Jihadists. Ask Eric Holder
Look at him hugging. He’s so cold.....looking to the next one.
OMG- I just heard Obama’s “great job Brownie” moment...he just hugged Geithner and told him he did a great job today.
Timmy was before the House hearings on AIG and he was an absolute disaster...
I made broiled crab on english muffins, but got hungry and already ate them.
What is our drinking word/s tonight?
Pelosi TOTALLY wanted to kiss 0bama’s hand right there.
Hi, honey.
SEIU purple score board:
MO
Pelosi
Reid
Schumer
Biden
Nappy
Stabacow
This is not happenstance ...
Go Sarah and on Greta afterwards !
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